Improvement in stools or chairs



UNITED' STATES HENRY ooonr., QE MILWAUKEE, wIscoNsIN.

IMPROVEMENT IN STOOLS OR CHAIRS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 139,730, dated June 10, 1873; application led May 31, 1873.

To allwhom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY, OGORB., of Milwaukee, in the State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Stools and Chairs, of which the following is a specification:

This invention relates particularly to the seat portion of stools and chairsthat is to say, the skeleton or annular rim or frame, which is caned or upholstered in order to form the seat.

This rim or frame has heretofore been made of Wood, the use of which is open to objections. In crder to be at all durable it must be thick and consequently heavy. It is also usually made in two or more pieces, and these pieces are apt to warp, and their joints not unt'requently become loose. It is also difficult to make wooden frames ornamental unless with considerable trouble and expense.

` frame, in the latter instance, being provided with the necessary holes for the passage of the cane strips. This frame, cast of metal not necessarily more than one-eighth of an inch in thickness, can be cast of any desired pattern so as to be extremely ornamental, is formed Vwith all the appliances needed to adapt it to receive the upholstering or caning,

as the case may be, and is both light and very durable.

The accompanying drawing represents the manner in which my invention is, or may be,

-carried into effect.

Figure l is a perspective under-side view of the rim or frame adapted for a stool-seat. Fig. 2 is a top view of the same caned. Fig. 3 is a vertical central section of an upholstered stool embodying my invention.

A is the cast-metal rim formed, as shown, on its under side with sockets a to receive the tenons of the legs b of the stool or chair. These legs are of the usual ordinary or suitable construction, and are made of ordinary material, such as wood. The sockets should expand toward their bottom, as shown, and the legs are readily secured therein by means of wedges b inserted in the slit upper ends of the legs, before the latter areput into their sockets. When the legs are driven into their sockets the wedges, forced into the wood by striking against the bottoms of the sockets,`

is a continuous horizontal iiange or ledge, c, y

which is a .little below the pla-ne of the top of the rim, so that the strips of cane can be ap plied to it without projecting or rising above the plane of the rim.l In this ledge holes d` are cast or reamed out, (casting is preferable for the reasons above given,) in case the chair or stool is to be caned; 0r the rim may be upholstered, or have an upholstered seat applied toit, as shown in Fig. 3. The screws which hold the upholstered seat in place pass up through to the caning-holes. If desired,a

strip of wood might be sprung into the recess above the liange or ledge c, and there held in 5 place by suitable means. 'To this strip the upholstering material could be tacked or secured. i

In case the rim is designed for achair suitable sockets, of course, must be provided in it for reception of the tenons oli' the back of the chairs or the bows. f

The above-described rim or frame is cheap and durable, and possesses many material advantages over the ordinary wooden frame. L What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A cast-metal rim for a stool or chair,

formed in one piece, as herein (lescribed,\vith sockets to receive the legs, and a perforated flange or ledge for attachment of the upholstered or cane seat, as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of two 'subscribing witnesses.

i HENRY OGORR.

Witnesses:

JEROMER. BRIGHAM, D. B. FRANKENEURGER. 

